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shortylickens

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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preCRT said:
Bet they never heard of floppy drives either.
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Theres a fuckload of people with no idea why the Save icon looks like it does.
Or HDD icons.


Or

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CraKaJaX

CraKaJaX

Lifer
Dec 26, 2004
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Said intern has parents living in a box - you stay out of that box! I don't think age has to do with it honestly. I was brought up listening to all the classic shit - Hendrix, Clapton, SRV, Who, Stones, etc. Half the members in the said bands are dead. If this kid was brought up with ANY music at all, he would know about the two bands mentioned. He probably is a DJ Tiesto and EDC clown - am I right?
 
master_shake_

master_shake_

Diamond Member
May 22, 2012
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i know who pearl jam is.

it went this way.

ten---------->ticketmaster feud---------->no music videos------------->ten re-released.

right?

j/k
 
John Connor

John Connor

Lifer
Nov 30, 2012
22,757
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There's a lot of shit these young punks don't know. I seen a vid on YouTube of a kid not knowing what a pay phone was. I was born in an eara where there were pay phones, the cell phone just came out and I listened to records and had a walkmen. Hell! Do this young punks even own a portable CD player? Still have mine! Skip protection too yo!
 
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John Connor

John Connor

Lifer
Nov 30, 2012
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Fanatical Meat said:
I bet you remember when water was free and porn cost money.
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I remember when you can hear and barely see porn on the TV with cable. Now it's all digital shit! You can't even tap into your neighbor for free cable TV which at the time included damn near all the channels (Red Shoe Diaries was awesome :D). Now you need a hacked cable box with bullet protection (do they still call it that?) to watch cable for free.
 
John Connor

John Connor

Lifer
Nov 30, 2012
22,757
617
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Good times. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3mbBbFH9fAg

"Black Hole Sun" is a song by the American rock band Soundgarden. Written by frontman Chris Cornell, "Black Hole Sun" was released in 1994 as the third single from the band's fourth studio album Superunknown (1994). It is arguably the band's most recognizable and most popular song, and remains a well known song from the 1990s. The song topped the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart, where it spent a total of seven weeks at number one. Despite peaking at number two on the Modern Rock Tracks, "Black Hole Sun" still finished as the number-one track of 1994 for that chart. It failed to hit the Billboard Hot 100 chart due to the rules of a physical/commercial release of the single at the time, but it still peaked at number 24 on the Hot 100 Airplay chart and number nine on the Mainstream Top 40 chart. The song was included on Soundgarden's 1997 greatest hits album A-Sides and appeared again on the 2010 compilation album Telephantasm.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Hole_Sun
 
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Fingolfin269

Fingolfin269

Lifer
Feb 28, 2003
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Somewhat similar anecdote here...

A guy I work with who is maybe 24 or so saw Foo Fighters recently. He said, 'I didn't know Dave Grohl could play the drums too!'.
 
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lxskllr

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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shortylickens said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InBXu-iY7cw


:|


I never had a chance.
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Oh, I'm not that old. That's Perk :^P

15 years before I was born, Eisenhower was president, Playboy was first released, and this was a hot tune...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnFlx2Lnr9Q

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Having trouble mathing. I guess that's a sign of getting old :^D

I always seem to drop 0-9 of the 2000s when thinking about time. 25 years before birth the US was kicking ass in WWII, and Glenn Miller was topping the charts.
 
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SlitheryDee

SlitheryDee

Lifer
Feb 2, 2005
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Wait that's not a sign that you're old. I'm familiar with the existence of things that came before my time. I may not know EVERY band that came out with an album in the 20-30 years prior to my birth, but I could probably hit the high notes. Nirvana and Pearl Jam would be this generation's equivalent of that. I think that person was just a dumbass.
 
Blackjack200

Blackjack200

Lifer
May 28, 2007
15,995
1,686
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Fingolfin269 said:
Somewhat similar anecdote here...

A guy I work with who is may 24 or so saw Foo Fighters recently. He said, 'I didn't know Dave Grohl could play the drums too!'.
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That's so fucking awesome. That's the kind of shit I would say to troll someone.
 
Cerb

Cerb

Elite Member
Aug 26, 2000
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Sho'Nuff said:
Just found out the intern in my office has never heard of the bands Peal Jam, and Nirvana.

Might as well put me in a box now.
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That's just having bad taste, or lack of any (in that the conversation did not turn to other genres, which would have been an acceptable way to not know these things). Not knowing about good music that predates your birth by decades is a sign of lack of interest, much less those that are likely pretty close to that age, or even more recent.

Anyway, Pearl Jam and Nirvana still get played all the fucking time on the radio. Like, way too much, and only from Ten and Nevermind.
 
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